On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:19:16AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 08:42:31AM +0100, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> > So it's equal even without calling justify_interval() on the result.
> >
> > FWIW, I remain of the opinion that the interval literal code should
> > just spill down to lower units in all cases, just like the
> > multiplication and division code, so that the results are consistent
> > (barring floating point rounding errors) and explainable.
>
> Here is a more minimal patch that doesn't change the spill-down units at
> all, but merely documents it, and changes the spilldown to months to
> round instead of truncate.
Unless I hear more feedback, I plan to apply this doc patch to all
branches with the word "rounded" changed to "truncated" in the back
branches, and apply the rounded code changes to master.
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